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Scope and Contents The materials in the collection partially document three areas of Collins’ professional activities. The collection contains general correspondence concerning Collin’s personal business dealings from 1931 to 1974, correspondence and topical literature related to Collins’ duties as State Representative (1931-1943) and State Senator (1943-1973), and correspondence from Collins’ legal practice with most materials involving specific legal cases. This collection represents a modest portion of...

Scope and Contents The materials in the People Who Care Records date from 1969 to 2007. Series I documents the case of People Who Care vs. the Rockford Board of Education from 1989 to 1999, and include reports and correspondence related to the lawsuit. Series II, Rockford Schools, contains two subseries: Subseries A, History and Reports, contains a variety of documents dating from 1969 to 2001 dealing with Rockford’s Schools and includes information on Diversity, Controlled Choice, and Magnet Schools....

Scope and Contents The records in this collection document the activities of the Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce from 1910 to the present.  The original collection is arranged in seven series.  The  addendum donated in April 2006 adds an eighth series, Council of 100 Records. Series I and its five subseries contains many of the core organizational records of the Rockford Chamber including Board of Directors' records, Executive Committee records, Financial Statements, Annual Meeting Records and Annual...

Scope and Contents The records for the Rockford Urban Ministries date from 1962 to 2017 and consist of organization records and subject files.  The organization records include constitutions, meeting minutes, director reports, newsletters, correspondence and financial information.  Included within the meeting minutes files are agendas, reports, newsletters, correspondence, and financial information.  Following the organization records are alphabetically arranged files that include organizations within and...